Bible Cross References
For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.
Luke 21:15
because I will give you such words and wisdom that none of your enemies will be able to refute or contradict what you say.
Exodus 4:11
The LORD said to him, "Who gives man his mouth? Who makes him deaf or dumb? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? It is I, the LORD.
Acts 4:8
Peter, full of the Holy Spirit, answered them, "Leaders of the people and elders:
Acts 6:10
But the Spirit gave Stephen such wisdom that when he spoke, they could not refute him.
Acts 7:2-53
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Stephen answered, "Brothers and fathers, listen to me! Before our ancestor Abraham had gone to live in Haran, the God of glory appeared to him in Mesopotamia
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and said to him, 'Leave your family and country and go to the land that I will show you.'
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And so he left his country and went to live in Haran. After Abraham's father died, God made him move to this land where you now live.
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God did not then give Abraham any part of it as his own, not even a square foot of ground, but God promised to give it to him, and that it would belong to him and to his descendants. At the time God made this promise, Abraham had no children.
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This is what God said to him: 'Your descendants will live in a foreign country, where they will be slaves and will be badly treated for four hundred years.
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But I will pass judgment on the people that they will serve, and afterward your descendants will come out of that country and will worship me in this place.'
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Then God gave to Abraham the ceremony of circumcision as a sign of the covenant. So Abraham circumcised Isaac a week after he was born; Isaac circumcised his son Jacob, and Jacob circumcised his twelve sons, the famous ancestors of our race.
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"Jacob's sons became jealous of their brother Joseph and sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him
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and brought him safely through all his troubles. When Joseph appeared before the king of Egypt, God gave him a pleasing manner and wisdom, and the king made Joseph governor over the country and the royal household.
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Then there was a famine all over Egypt and Canaan, which caused much suffering. Our ancestors could not find any food,
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and when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent his sons, our ancestors, on their first visit there.
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On the second visit Joseph made himself known to his brothers, and the king of Egypt came to know about Joseph's family.
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So Joseph sent a message to his father Jacob, telling him and the whole family, seventy-five people in all, to come to Egypt.
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Then Jacob went to Egypt, where he and his sons died.
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Their bodies were taken to Shechem, where they were buried in the grave which Abraham had bought from the clan of Hamor for a sum of money.
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"When the time drew near for God to keep the promise he had made to Abraham, the number of our people in Egypt had grown much larger.
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At last a king who did not know about Joseph began to rule in Egypt.
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He tricked our ancestors and was cruel to them, forcing them to put their babies out of their homes, so that they would die.
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It was at this time that Moses was born, a very beautiful child. He was cared for at home for three months,
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and when he was put out of his home, the king's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.
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He was taught all the wisdom of the Egyptians and became a great man in words and deeds.
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"When Moses was forty years old, he decided to find out how his fellow Israelites were being treated.
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He saw one of them being mistreated by an Egyptian, so he went to his help and took revenge on the Egyptian by killing him.
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(He thought that his own people would understand that God was going to use him to set them free, but they did not understand.)
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The next day he saw two Israelites fighting, and he tried to make peace between them. 'Listen, men,' he said, 'you are fellow Israelites; why are you fighting like this?'
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But the one who was mistreating the other pushed Moses aside. 'Who made you ruler and judge over us?' he asked.
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'Do you want to kill me, just as you killed that Egyptian yesterday?'
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When Moses heard this, he fled from Egypt and went to live in the land of Midian. There he had two sons.
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"After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai.
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Moses was amazed by what he saw, and went near the bush to get a better look. But he heard the Lord's voice:
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'I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.' Moses trembled with fear and dared not look.
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The Lord said to him, 'Take your sandals off, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
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I have seen the cruel suffering of my people in Egypt. I have heard their groans, and I have come down to set them free. Come now; I will send you to Egypt.'
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"Moses is the one who was rejected by the people of Israel. 'Who made you ruler and judge over us?' they asked. He is the one whom God sent to rule the people and set them free with the help of the angel who appeared to him in the burning bush.
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He led the people out of Egypt, performing miracles and wonders in Egypt and at the Red Sea and for forty years in the desert.
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Moses is the one who said to the people of Israel, 'God will send you a prophet, just as he sent me, and he will be one of your own people.'
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He is the one who was with the people of Israel assembled in the desert; he was there with our ancestors and with the angel who spoke to him on Mount Sinai, and he received God's living messages to pass on to us.
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"But our ancestors refused to obey him; they pushed him aside and wished that they could go back to Egypt.
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So they said to Aaron, 'Make us some gods who will lead us. We do not know what has happened to that man Moses, who brought us out of Egypt.'
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It was then that they made an idol in the shape of a bull, offered sacrifice to it, and had a feast in honor of what they themselves had made.
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So God turned away from them and gave them over to worship the stars of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: 'People of Israel! It was not to me that you slaughtered and sacrificed animals for forty years in the desert.
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It was the tent of the god Molech that you carried, and the image of Rephan, your star god; they were idols that you had made to worship. And so I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.'
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"Our ancestors had the Tent of God's presence with them in the desert. It had been made as God had told Moses to make it, according to the pattern that Moses had been shown.
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Later on, our ancestors who received the tent from their fathers carried it with them when they went with Joshua and took over the land from the nations that God drove out as they advanced. And it stayed there until the time of David.
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He won God's favor and asked God to allow him to provide a dwelling place for the God of Jacob.
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But it was Solomon who built him a house.
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"But the Most High God does not live in houses built by human hands; as the prophet says,
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'Heaven is my throne, says the Lord, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house would you build for me? Where is the place for me to live in?
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Did not I myself make all these things?'
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"How stubborn you are!" Stephen went on to say. "How heathen your hearts, how deaf you are to God's message! You are just like your ancestors: you too have always resisted the Holy Spirit!
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Was there any prophet that your ancestors did not persecute? They killed God's messengers, who long ago announced the coming of his righteous Servant. And now you have betrayed and murdered him.
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You are the ones who received God's law, that was handed down by angels---yet you have not obeyed it!"
Acts 7:55-53
Acts 26:1-32
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Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak on your own behalf." Paul stretched out his hand and defended himself as follows:
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"King Agrippa! I consider myself fortunate that today I am to defend myself before you from all the things these Jews accuse me of,
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particularly since you know so well all the Jewish customs and disputes. I ask you, then, to listen to me with patience.
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"All the Jews know how I have lived ever since I was young. They know how I have spent my whole life, at first in my own country and then in Jerusalem.
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They have always known, if they are willing to testify, that from the very first I have lived as a member of the strictest party of our religion, the Pharisees.
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And now I stand here to be tried because of the hope I have in the promise that God made to our ancestors---
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the very thing that the twelve tribes of our people hope to receive, as they worship God day and night. And it is because of this hope, Your Majesty, that I am being accused by these Jews!
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Why do you who are here find it impossible to believe that God raises the dead?
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"I myself thought that I should do everything I could against the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.
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That is what I did in Jerusalem. I received authority from the chief priests and put many of God's people in prison; and when they were sentenced to death, I also voted against them.
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Many times I had them punished in the synagogues and tried to make them deny their faith. I was so furious with them that I even went to foreign cities to persecute them.
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"It was for this purpose that I went to Damascus with authority and orders from the chief priests.
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It was on the road at midday, Your Majesty, that I saw a light much brighter than the sun, coming from the sky and shining around me and the men traveling with me.
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All of us fell to the ground, and I heard a voice say to me in Hebrew, 'Saul, Saul! Why are you persecuting me? You are hurting yourself by hitting back, like an ox kicking against its owner's stick.'
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'Who are you, Lord?' I asked. And the Lord answered, 'I am Jesus, whom you persecute.
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But get up and stand on your feet. I have appeared to you to appoint you as my servant. You are to tell others what you have seen of me today and what I will show you in the future.
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I will rescue you from the people of Israel and from the Gentiles to whom I will send you.
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You are to open their eyes and turn them from the darkness to the light and from the power of Satan to God, so that through their faith in me they will have their sins forgiven and receive their place among God's chosen people.'
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"And so, King Agrippa, I did not disobey the vision I had from heaven.
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First in Damascus and in Jerusalem and then in the whole country of Israel and among the Gentiles, I preached that they must repent of their sins and turn to God and do the things that would show they had repented.
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It was for this reason that these Jews seized me while I was in the Temple, and they tried to kill me.
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But to this very day I have been helped by God, and so I stand here giving my witness to all, to small and great alike. What I say is the very same thing which the prophets and Moses said was going to happen:
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that the Messiah must suffer and be the first one to rise from death, to announce the light of salvation to the Jews and to the Gentiles."
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As Paul defended himself in this way, Festus shouted at him, "You are mad, Paul! Your great learning is driving you mad!"
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Paul answered, "I am not mad, Your Excellency! I am speaking the sober truth.
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King Agrippa! I can speak to you with all boldness, because you know about these things. I am sure that you have taken notice of every one of them, for this thing has not happened hidden away in a corner.
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King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you do!"
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Agrippa said to Paul, "In this short time do you think you will make me a Christian?"
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"Whether a short time or a long time," Paul answered, "my prayer to God is that you and all the rest of you who are listening to me today might become what I am---except, of course, for these chains!"
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Then the king, the governor, Bernice, and all the others got up,
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and after leaving they said to each other, "This man has not done anything for which he should die or be put in prison."
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And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man could have been released if he had not appealed to the Emperor."